Mr. Franck Viault (Head of Cooperation), Ms. Marja Daffern (Deputy Head of Finance, Contracts and Audit) and Mr. Giovanni Serritella (Programme Manager for Environment, Climate change and FLEGT-VPA) of the EU Delegation to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and ASEAN visited the base camp of the Elephant Patrol Unit (EPU), which is managed and operated by LIF, at Aras Napal on Thursday, 16 April 2015. More

Tujuh badak Sumatra tertangkap kamera di Leuser

Seven of the world's rarest rhinoceroses have been found in a national park in Indonesia. This is the first time the creatures have been seen in 26 years. Deforestation is still pushing the Sumatran toward extinction.

Hidden cameras buried deep in an Indonesian national park have snapped images of seven critically endangered Sumatran rhinos. The rhinos haven't been seen in more than a quarter of a century and conservationists had feared the Sumatran was extinct. But, six females and one male rhino are now known to live in the Mount Leuser National Park, which is on the northern tip of Sumatra. More

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The Leuser Management Unit (LMU), while implementing the Leuser Development Programme (funded jointly by the EU and GoI), officially launched the Elephant Patrol Unit (EPU) in Aras Napal on 9 May 2000 and this was the first of its kind in Indonesia. More

cru

The Conservation Response Unit (CRU) will mitigate human-elephant conflicts. This Unit has four trained elephants under the supervision of a mahout provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA). The project will support the initial cost for the infrastructure development of the CRU and also support its operational costs until 2016. The elephants will be supported and the local community will participate in monitoring wildlife conflicts and illegal forestry activities. More

LIF PARTICIPATES IN DISCUSSION ON TIGERS

Dr. Jamal Gawi, MES, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Leuser International Foundation, participated in a discussion on Tigers (Wildlife Protection Series) at @america Pacific Place in Jakarta on Wednesday, 1 October 2014. More

ARP

In order to protect the habitat and the population of the Sumatran rhinos in the Gunung Leuser National Park area, the Leuser Rhino Protection Unit (RPU) needs information from villages bordering the Sumatran rhino habitats about poaching and trade activities to enable the RPU team to conduct patrols effectively on target. The RPU also monitors the poaching and trafficking of other wildlife species such as the Sumatran tiger, the Sumatran elephant and the Sumatran orangutan in and around the Leuser Ecosystem. This activity is made possible by collaboration between the Asian Rhino Project (ARP) and Leuser International Foundation.

The monitoring of wildlife poaching and trafficking is currently in progress in the districts of South Aceh and Southeast Aceh.

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